AGENDA

Madrid.
2017/09/26 19:00 - 2017/12/19 21:00

Course: "Introduction to Sanskrit. The language of yoga and Indian culture"

Sanskrit is in India what Greek and Latin are in Europe: the language of classic culture, religious and secular knowledge, literature… Anyone who would like to know more about this civilisation needs to know some Sanskrit. And specifically Sanskrit is the language of yoga.

The most important treaties of this discipline —Upaniṣads, Bhagavadgītā, Yogasūtras, Haṭha Pradīpikā…— are in Sanskrit, as well as the names of yoga techniques, mantras, etc. For practicers and, especially, for yoga teachers it is essential to have basic notions of this language that allows them to pronounce the worlds they use correctly, with the right gender, to recite and understand mantras well and be able to read simple texts in Sanskrit.

For this reason, the objective of the course, which is mostly practical, is for students to acquire those basic concepts that will allow them to pronunciate, recite, read, write and understand words, sentences and texts in that language, especially those related to yoga and the thought of India (vedānta, ayurveda, buddism, etc.).